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Edited by Gary W. Priester Number 68 • March 15, 2007

Guest Tutorial #68

Levels in Xara Picture Editor (XPE)
©2007 Paul Söderholm

The basics of Levels can be found in the XPE Help menu, and has also been introduced in The Xara Xone Workbook 55 and in the last Guest Tutorial 67 by Sally M. Bode. In this tutorial I will try to take XPE Levels to the next level (sorry for the wordplay - it's a bit lame but completely intentional :-)

I do lot of photo retouching in my work at a local newspaper and as Adobe Photoshop is the de facto standard software I cannot help comparing XPE levels with the tool in Photoshop. I often try to simulate my Photoshop workflow when I retouch photos in Xara Xtreme Pro.

In this tutorial the only tool used used in XPE is the Levels tool!

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